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What was ironic about the Cotton Club?

What was ironic about the Cotton Club? . “If there’s a single place that best represents the opulence and excessiveness of the 1920s, it’s New York City’s Cotton Club .” - Unknown. Cab Calloway.

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What was ironic about the Cotton Club?

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  1. What was ironic about the Cotton Club? “If there’s a single place that best represents the opulence and excessiveness of the 1920s, it’s New York City’s Cotton Club.” - Unknown

  2. Cab Calloway “Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.”

  3. It was the center of the Jazz Age and a Flapper hangout.

  4. The Cotton Club - 1984 Exit Ticket: Why did whites dominate the Cotton Club? As you watch the movie take notes on the roles/relationships between blacks and whites in and around the club. We will discuss the topic at the end, but you must have a written response to the question by the time you leave class.

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